Emergence of colistin resistance in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli strains isolated from cancer patients | Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials | Full Text

Emergence of colistin resistance in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli strains isolated from cancer patients | Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials | Full Text

Emergence of colistin resistance in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli strains isolated from cancer patients

Colistin resistance is mainly driven by alterations in the Gram-negative outer membrane lipopolysaccharides and is caused, in most cases, by mutations in mgrB gene. However, the recent emergence of plasmid-encode...

Authors:Mai M. Zafer, Hadir A. El-Mahallawy, Asmaa Abdulhak, Magdy A. Amin, Mohamed H. Al-Agamy and Hesham H. Radwan

Citation:Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2019 18:40

Content type:Research

Published on: 12 December 2019

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